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Demand for shipments has risen since Red Sea attacks

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A China-Europe freight train returning from Russia arrives at a railway container freight center on September 20, 2023 in Manzhouli, China. Liu Wenhua | China News Service | Getty Images Shippers are scrambling to find alternative ways to transport goods from China to Europe in light of the disruption caused by attacks on the Red … Read more

The Russians are spending big on infrastructure to absorb occupied Ukraine

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Armies rarely measure their success by the roads they’ve paved or the rail lines they’ve laid down — but that may be the metric Russia is using in occupied portions of Ukraine, where major infrastructure projects are underway or are being planned. Over the last few months, Moscow-based media have reported on the construction of a new railway line between Rostov-on-Don … Read more